What Are The Symbols For The Elements2

What Are the Symbols for The Elements?
A. HOW ELEMENTS ARE NAMED

Study the Periodic Table of Elements that you were given. Do any of the names of the elements
sound familiar? They should. Some elements have ancient names of Latin and Greek origins; but
many other were named for famous scientists, countries, planets, etc. With a copy of the Periodic
Table before you, answer the following questions.
1. There are several elements named for famous scientists. Can you find three?
__________________ , __________________ , and _____________________
2. There are four elements named for the planets. Can you find all four of them?
__________________ , ___________________ , ___________________ , and ____________________
3. There is one element named for a city in the United States and another for the state of that city.
Can you find the element named for the city and the element named for the state?
(Hint: They are next to each other on the table.) ___________________ and ___________________
4. There are two elements named for large regions which include several countries. Do you know
what these elements are called? ________________ and ________________
5. Element numbers 39, 65, 68, and 70 were all named for the same city, Ytterby, Sweden.What are
the names of these elements?__________________ , ___________________ , ___________________ , and
____________________
6. The ancient name for France was Gaul, and the ancient name for Russia was Ruthernia. Can you
find the elements named for these ancient lands?
_____________________ and _______________________
7. Find the elements named in honor of France, America, Poland, and Germany.
__________________ , ___________________ , ___________________ , and ____________________
B. COMPLETE SENTENCES
Complete the sentences with the words below.
capital two elements symbol small
8. The short way of writing an element name is called its _________________________.

9. The first letter of a chemical symbol is always a ___________________ letter.
10. If a chemical symbol has two letters, the second letter is always a ______________ letter.
11. A chemical symbol never has more than __________ letters.
12. Chemists use symbols for the names of ______________________.
An Elemental Tale: The Gold Dust Kid
The Kid mounted his trusty steed, old [B] ___________. His shooting [Fe] ____________ strapped
to his side, he headed out for the bright [Ne] ____________ lights of Toronto, aiming to rob the mid-
day stage. There was sure to be a load of precious [U] ______________ aboard, and probably [K]
____________, too. Inhaling a deep breath of [O] __________ he coughed on the [S] ____________ from
the nearby mills. Since the [Hg] ______________ was climbing, he quenched his thirst with some
H2O, tasting the [Cl] ____________ all big cities like Brockville had. As he headed north his bones
ached from [Ca] _____________deposits built up over the years of riding the [Zn] ____________ trail.
Overhead a [He] __________-filled balloon floated in the breeze; the sun beat down like burning [P]
____________. Soon he spotted the stage, guarded only by a sheriff with a [Sn] ____________ badge.
"Halt," he yelled. "or I'll fill you full of [Pb] ____________." The sheriff drew his gun, but alas, was too
slow. The Kid's gun, blazing like flaming [Mg] ______________ did the [Cu] ____________ in. Anyone
who drew on the Kid should know his life wasn't worth a plugged [Ni] ______________. A [Pt]
____________ blonde riding beside the [Al] ___________-framed coach rode for her life when the Kid
pulled out some [N] ____________ compounds, preparing to blow the safe to atoms. Suddenly, a
shout rang out, "Hi Ho [Ag] ___________ and a masked man on a white horse raced across the [Si]
____________ sands like [Na] ______________ skittering on H2O. A [H] ___________ bomb would not
have stopped the lawman; the Kid had met his doom. The rest of his life was to be spent behind [Co]
___________ steel bars, a warning to all who flirt with danger. Your first detention may be the initial
step in a [C] ____________ copy life of the saga of the [Au] ___________ dust Kid.
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A. HOW ELEMENTS ARE NAMED

capital two elements symbol small

8. The short way of writing an element name is called its _________________________.

An Elemental Tale: The Gold Dust Kid

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